Bethesda, Mojang & 'Scrolls'

Bethesda, Mojang & "Scrolls"

By Sacheverell Aug 5, 2011
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It would appear that Bethesda - developer of numerous popular titles, including the "Elder Scrolls" series of games - is suing Mojang for use of the word "Scrolls" in one of their upcoming projects.

UPDATE NOTE

There seems to be some (understandable) confusion in regards to where the lawsuit is coming from. To clarify, "Bethesda Softworks" (publisher and developer of game titles) and "Bethesda Game Studios" (Creators of games like Oblivion, Skyrim etc.) are not the same entity. BGS is an in-house game-making team led by Todd Howard which is one part of Bethesda Softworks, and has no direct connection to the lawsuit in progress by Bethesda Softworks. Unless further specified by the acronym "BGS", any references to Bethesda in the following article assume "Bethesda Softworks". Sorry about the confusion!

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Mojang has been in development of another project (which we went over in our last installment), which bears the working name "Scrolls". Bethesda has expressed concern that players could mix up this new game with their own "Elder Scrolls" series, although the two seem to share no noticeable similarities beyond the word "scrolls".

Notch said that their office received a 15-page cease-and-desist letter, claiming that Mojang would be sued for rights to the word, along with formal requests for legal fees. He went on to say that they are attempting to establish talks with Bethesda regarding the word, to find an amicable solution for both parties. At the time of this writing, there was no available response from Bethesda.

We will continue to update this article as information becomes available.

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Rulep
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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Bethesda...By your own logic you should get sued. Why? They have a game called "Rage", but in 1991 Sega made a game series called "Streets of Rage." Hypocrites? Nope! Justmoney gurbers.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
You are aware that just because the names are similar it doesn't mean the games themselves are unoriginal right? Idiot.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Hmm... if we make a game called Scrolls but has no actual similarity of gameplay with Elder Scroll, it's like saying you can name Pepsi Coke because they taste alike...

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Just tweeted:

"@Bethblog I would just like to let you know that I will no longer be purchasing any games you make. You can thank your Law staff."

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
**** bethesda, greedy assholes

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Someone should make a giant stuffed doll in the form of a creeper and send it to bethesda as an apology, and have the doll with a note that says BOOM!

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Quote from kevin4460

Just tweeted:

"@Bethblog I would just like to let you know that I will no longer be purchasing any games you make. You can thank your Law staff."

OOOOOO arent you big and bad? :laugh.gif:
I highly doubt they care if 1 person changes their mind. I do think its stupid to change it over this, when Its not Bethesda Game Studios doing it. They make the game, they dont publish it which is BethSoft & Zenimax (and the actual ones doing this)

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
"Notch said that their office received a 15-page cease-and-desist letter..."

Hey, that's a show]! NBC is suing you!

Wait, that's the name of a song! Train is suing you!

Stop! That's already an acronym! The National Association of Medical Examiners is suing you!

Come on Bethesda. Get the stick out of your ass and deal with the fact that some of the very same nouns that you use can and will be used by other people. If you must sue Mojang for using the same NOUN, Scrolls, as you did, then you should also follow up with the City of Las Vegas about stealing your name. I just lost so much respect for you, Bethesda.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
If this affects the adventure update in any way then im going to kill bethesda

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
You flame war starters and vulgar mouthed trolls are obviously missing the point here. They're not sueing Mojang for use of the word, they just don't want them to use it to avoid confusion between the two. Imagine this:

Gamer 1 "Hey, I was playing SCROLLS last night and finally got the fire scroll. That does craaaazy stuff!"
Gamer 2 "Oh, hey I love that game!" (Goes home to google fire scroll in skyrim)

I would be confused too. And personally, I never really liked the name Scrolls anyway.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
So apparently they think it's illegal to use ONE word? Dragon Age might as well sue every other game with the word "Dragon" or "Age" in it's title then. Great Logic there bethesda.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
This sucks...But Scrolls ins't famous at all lol

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I'm going to support Mojang and buy Scrolls. Then we'll see which game is better!

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Nobody says "The Elder Scrolls." They say Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Quite honestly if they're going to ***** over something stupid like the word "scrolls" I can just skip on number 5 till it's on sale by Steam.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I'm with Mojang all the way.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I didn't realise how utterly stupid this is until now. You can't sue someone just because you think something will be confusing!

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
The problem being the article itself clearly states that Bethesda is suing Mojang. The first time it was mentioned, they merely said that a letter was sent saying they would be sued but according to the article, they are actually in the midst of a lawsuit.

Although the article doesn't mention this, the title states it. Maybe your news correspondent needs to get his **** together, but don't be barking at us for believing what the article says.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
wow. just lost a little bit of respect for bethesda.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Also my post was a reply to an earlier post somewhere, but for some reason the reply thingy didn't really work.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
o___o Lolwut.

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